What is left the daughter
By: Howard Norman
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780547521824
Subjects: World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924; Life change events; Germans; World War, 1939-1945; Fiction
Description: Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents, within hours of each other, jump off two different bridges--the result of their separate involvements with the same compelling neighbor, a Halifax switchboard operator and aspiring actress. The suicides cause Wyatt to move to small-town Middle Economy to live with his uncle, aunt, and cousin Tilda. Wyatt's account of the astonishing--not least to him--events leading up to his fathering of a beloved daughter spills out twenty-one years later. It's a confession that speaks profoundly of the mysteries of human character in wartime and is directed, with both despair and hope, to an audience of one.
Notes: Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.